Scott Dixon

Marcus Ericsson opened his 2023 season in style after passing Pato O'Ward with four laps to go to clinch victory in a chaotic crash-strewn IndyCar season ...

Rahal and Power demoted Palou on the final lap to claim sixth and seventh. O’Ward staved off Ericsson on the restart, and the Swede had his mirrors full of Dixon. Grosjean was out on the spot, while McLaughlin was bumpstarted and went to the pits. The McLaren driver was also having to keep his eye on his mirrors for Dixon and Ericsson who were both edging away from Rossi, Palou, Newgarden and Callum Ilott of Juncos Hollinger Racing. Thankfully the next restart was clean and stayed clean, and Grosjean did a superb job on primary tyree to hang on to McLaughlin on alternates over the next laps. For the second time in 45 laps, an Andretti car was sent into the air. The second Meyer Shank car of [Simon Pagenaud](https://www.autosport.com/driver/simon-pagenaud/829686/) and [Dale Coyne Racing](https://www.autosport.com/team/dale-coyne-racing/36587/)’s rookie Sting Ray Robb was also involved. McLaughlin emerged from the pits ahead of Grosjean and the pair went side by side down to Turn 4. Herta then pitted on lap 27, and Kirkwood on lap 28. By lap 23, Grosjean had dropped Herta by 5.5s, and Herta was dropping into the clutches of O’Ward and Ericsson. Lundgaard made an error that saw him lose 10th to Malukas but the DCR driver soon pitted as Race Control ordered him to serve a drive-through penalty. The impact sent Rosenqvist into the outside wall at Turn 3 and was left limping to the pits with left-rear damage.

Jack Harvey was taken to a hospital for observation and Helio Castroneves needed an ice pack and X-rays. A pair of cars went airborne, the leaders crashed ...

Grosjean was furious, first throwing his arms up in disgust, and then pounding his first on the stack of tyres as he screamed. Rinus VeeKay had slid into a tire barrier, Harvey ran into the back of VeeKay and Kirkwood launched over both cars. A seven-car accident on the very first lap knocked five cars out of the race, including Andretti driver Devlin DeFrancesco, who was sent airborne when rookie Ben Pedersen slammed directly into his stopped car. But it was supposed to be an Andretti car in victory lane, at least based on the speed the team showed all weekend. A pair of cars went airborne, the leaders crashed each other and the entire Andretti Autosport fleet was eliminated. Petersburg for a surprise victory for Chip Ganassi Racing on a swampy Sunday in Florida.

Colton Herta led the 30-minute final practice Sunday for the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg presented by RP Funding, reinforcing his status as a ...

Callum Ilott rounded out the top five at 1:01.0320 in the No. Six-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Scott Dixon ended up third in practice at 1:00.8377 in the No. Michael Andretti’s team also owns the front row of the starting grid, as Romain Grosjean won the NTT P1 Award on Saturday in the No. Kyle Kirkwood, who will start fifth, ended up second at 1:00.7213 in the No. Herta will start the race at noon ET today (NBC, Peacock, Telemundo Deportes on Universo, INDYCAR Radio Network) in the second position. Herta’s best lap was 1 minute, .5886 of a second on the 14-turn, 1.8-mile circuit in the No.

North America's open-wheel series returns from its offseason as IndyCar takes over the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida this weekend.